To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
Samuel JohnsonWhat provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
Samuel JohnsonWe have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
Samuel JohnsonThere seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
Samuel Johnson